Giant White Horse!

[Mr Pig]

... but am not sure if I believe Papercorns Tennis Court isn't photoshopped.

Too many people would be killed by falling balls!

 

[papercorn2000]

Apparently it isn't...But I'm willing to be proved wrong...

 

[longers]

I'm happy to be proved wrong. It looks like such lunacy that my first reaction is that it ain't real, don't mean it ain't so though.

 

[tdr1nka]

Just google 'Dubai buildings' and marvel!

Some of their buildings make 'sink plungers' and 'mid air tennis courts' seem
perfectly rational.

 

[Beardie]

Just google 'Dubai buildings' and marvel!

Some of their buildings make 'sink plungers' and 'mid air tennis courts' seem
perfectly rational.

That's nothing! Some nutcase in Kent is planning to erect a socking great concrete horse.
At least the Dubai buildings have some function.

 

[dellzeqq]

The horse is crass. In the world of public art the word 'idea' has come to mean the chance shortcircuit of two neurons, but I'm not prepared to give this tosh that much credit. One neuron would do the trick - particularly as the man who has the gall to call himself an artist has been touting the same one liner around for the last five years. And, as someone has mentioned, it's a crib of a whisky advert.

While accepting the sense of the discussion in P+L about the foolishness of political violence, I do think that the destruction of this piece of crap by a peleton of cyclists passing by in the middle of the night would in itself be a finer work of art than anything the prat Wallender has ever done in his life.

 

[dellzeqq]

So, any forummers who have been to Dubai... just what is the sink plunger in real life?

your resident construction expert says....

a device for craning in workmen

 

[papercorn2000]

I'm happy to be proved wrong. It looks like such lunacy that my first reaction is that it ain't real, don't mean it ain't so though.

The more I examine that picture, the less confident I feel about it's origins. I think it may be a photoshopped helipad!

 

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Agassi and Federer keeping the ball up...

 

[cisamcgu]

Now this is art



p.s. I love it actually .. there are loads of different, smaller ones, around the city

 

[alecstilleyedye]

Now this is art



p.s. I love it actually .. there are loads of different, smaller ones, around the city

i preferred cow parade

 

[Beardie]

I went back through the online news items for the selection of this piece and I saw what it was up against. The other shortlisted entries were a cairn of iron-lattice polygons, some cubes with lasers shining through them, a ziggurat of recycled material with a cast of the interior space of a house on top and a large concrete disc made to look as though it had risen from the earth, leaving behind an impression suitable for use as an ampitheatre.

I suppose that the horse is the one least attractive to the local chavs. They won't be able to climb it and daub graffiti and it will afford scant shelter for drinking and drug-taking in the evenings. Even so, I think it's a bit of a barren use of the land. Maybe you'll get vigilante Leylandii planters trying to hide it with a quick-growing conifer hedge. Even better, just plant a forest on the site. That won't cost £2m.

 

[Arch]

i preferred cow parade

Nah, this was best of all!

http://www.goelephants.co.uk/

 

[Beardie]

Kent is supposed to be the 'Garden of England'. Why is it turning into the sort of garden dominated by car facilities, shoddy buildings, poorly-thought-out landscaping, piles of rubbish and pathetically inappropriate ornaments?

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Kent is supposed to be the 'Garden of England'. Why is it turning into the sort of garden dominated by car facilities, shoddy buildings, poorly-thought-out landscaping, piles of rubbish and pathetically inappropriate ornaments?

Back in the 1950s, Nairn called it 'subtopia'... the spread of the ersatz not-urban, not-rural (or what Auge would call a no-place) it's what the whole of the South-east of England is nowadays.